Dialogue between Iran and the US: from the Islamic Awakening to Occupy Wall Street

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The US, not only failed to predict the occurrence of the Middle
East revolutions but also failed to understand the depth and the
probability of its spread to other countries. While Washington
was engaged in tactical initiatives in confronting the Islamic
Awakening, the Islamic republic of Iran took the creativity of a
strategic game in hand. This was a three-step profile raised by
the supreme leader of the Islamic revolution. In the first phase
the dialogue was related to the definition of the identity of the
revolutions in the region where Islam was considered as the
inspiring factor and Islam-seeking as its wish. The second step
focused on the geographic direction of the spread of these
revolutions and in the third stage, with emphasis on the
common factor of Zionism in the occurrence of the revolutions
in the region and the Occupy Wall Street movement, mixed
these two movements. By raising the Islamic republic dialogue,
the US positioned against Iran and we see a bipolar dialogue
on the revolutions of the region between Iran and the US.
Washington also tried to undermine this dialogue in the region.
Thus both sides, entering a dialogic confront, challenged each
other’s soft power. This paper tries to express each side’s
understanding of this reality and their attempt to represent it
outside, by analyzing the stages of this confrontation.

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World Studies Quarterly
Volume 2, Issue 1 - Serial Number 1
Spring & Summer
April 2012
Pages 145-172

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